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Wave 4: Live Writer To Get The Ribbon Interface?

Things have been very quiet in most of the Windows Live products since Wave 3 got released, but the one product who’s silence seems to bring concern about its future is Live Writer. This hasn’t been helped by some key …

Messenger users will need to upgrade to WLM 9 as of Sept. 15

Back in August, the Windows Live Messenger team blog posted an announcement regarding a mandatory upgrade to version 14.0.8089, due to security issues.  Beginning on August 25th, Messenger users on 8.1 or 8.5 were reminded to upgrade, but as of …

New Feed And Contact Partners Coming To Windows Live

This week 23 new third-party feed partners, including Blingee, BuddyTV, Goodreads, Hulu, Judy’s Book, MySpace, Newsvine, OleOle, Qik and SlideShare are rolling out in Windows Live (full list available here).

Adding feeds to your Windows Live Profile is easy. …

m.LiveSide.net on MoFuse Premium: Mo Betta

mfp_logo We’ve been using MoFuse to power our mobile experience for about a year now, and have been very pleased with the service.  Basically MoFuse takes our RSS feed, optimizes it for mobile on a number of devices, and takes care …

Another LiveSide poll, do you check tech news on mobile?

While we’re working through getting our new mobile experience at m.liveside.net (not done yet, but getting there) together, we thought it might make a good topic for a poll.  Thanks for responding to our first poll, on how you check your

Windows Live Wave 4: M1 released; Hotmail changes

We know Wave 4 is coming, and now thanks to WindowsLiveHelp.com, we know at least a few of the changes coming (here already?) to Hotmail.  We don’t appear to be seeing any of them here, yet, do you?

In …

Windows Live Calendar updated, Events discontinued

Windows_Live_Calendar_logo Last week, on September 3, 2009, Windows Live Events was officially “retired” and users will no longer be able to create new events using this service, and users are encouraged to download all the files and photos associated with an …

Bing flavored #koolaid at the company meeting

Microsoft held its annual company meeting earlier today (Wed Sept 10) at SafeCo Field (where the Mariners play major league baseball), and from the tweets and various snippets of posts that filtered out of the stadium seemed to cast Bing …

Windows Live Photos Improvements

As the number of megapixels in cameras increases, and making panorama pictures has been made easy with Windows Live Photo Gallery, it was time for Windows Live Photos to follow suit. Today a new release is being rolled out

Laptop Hunters, Behind The Scenes

Another “Laptop hunters” video appeared. No, not another one looking for a laptop, this time it’s a behind the scenes one.

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Enjoy!

Via: The Microsoft Blog